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Christ Is Risen. the Lord Is Risen Indeed. Alleluia! GRACE EPISCOPAL CHURCH The Seventh Sunday of Easter The Sixteenth Day of May in the year of our Lord 2021 Moring Prayer Rite II James Pasquale, Lay Worship Leader Welcome to Grace Episcopal Church. The mission of Grace Episcopal Church is to proclaim Jesus Christ as our Savior. We are dedicated to growing the Kingdom of God by actively living out our Baptismal Covenant. Through God’s grace we are committed to welcoming all, nurturing each other, building loving relationships with friends and strangers alike, and being renewed through the power of the Holy Spirit. MUSIC VOLUNTARY All who are able please stand OPENING SENTENCE Leader Alleluia! Christ is risen. People The Lord is risen indeed. Alleluia! THE CONFESSION Leader Let us confess our sins against God and our neighbor. Silence may be kept Leader Most merciful God, we confess that we have sinned against you in thought, word, and And deed, by what we have done, and by what we have left undone. We have not loved you People with our whole heart; we have not loved our neighbors, as ourselves. We are truly sorry and we humbly repent. For the sake of your Son Jesus Christ, have mercy on us and forgive us; that we may delight in your will, and walk in your ways, to the glory of your Name. Amen Leader Almighty God have mercy on us, forgive us all our sins through our Lord Jesus Christ, strengthen us in all goodness, and by the power of the Holy Spirit keep us in eternal life. Amen. THE INVITATORY AND PSALTER Leader Lord, open our lips. People And our mouth shall proclaim your praise. Leader and People Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit; as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be for ever. Amen. Alleluia. THE ANTIPHON Leader Alleluia, Christ the Lord has ascended into heaven: People Come let us adore him. Alleluia 1 THE INVITATORY: CHRIST OUR PASSOVER / PASCHA NOSTRUM 2 Please sit and read in unison Psalm 98 Cantate Domino 1 Sing to the LORD a new song, * for he has done marvelous things. 2 With his right hand and his holy arm * has he won for himself the victory. 3 3 The LORD has made known his victory; * his righteousness has he openly shown in the sight of the nations. 4 He remembers his mercy and faithfulness to the house of Israel, * and all the ends of the earth have seen the victory of our God. 5 Shout with joy to the LORD, all you lands; * lift up your voice, rejoice, and sing. 6 Sing to the LORD with the harp, * with the harp and the voice of song. 7 With trumpets and the sound of the horn * shout with joy before the King, the LORD. 8 Let the sea make a noise and all that is in it, * the lands and those who dwell therein. 9 Let the rivers clap their hands, * and let the hills ring out with joy before the LORD, when he comes to judge the earth. 10 In righteousness shall he judge the world * and the peoples with equity. Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit; as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be for ever. Amen. Alleluia. THE FIRST LESSON Acts 1.15-17, 21-26 Sara McNelis, Reader The choosing of twelve disciples as a special group seems to have been a sign of the coming age and of the new Israel. They are a distinct group whose numbers need to be restored after Judas’s defection. In today’s passage, the company of believers picks out two candidates who fulfill the criteria and then they cast lots to see who will replace Judas – a Hebrew custom to allow the operation of God’s will. Matthias was chosen and would share in ministry as the servant of the community and in apostleship as the missionary envoy of Christ. Leader A Reading from the book of Acts. In those days Peter stood up among the believers (together the crowd numbered about one hundred twenty persons) and said, "Friends, the scripture had to be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit through David foretold concerning Judas, who became a guide for those who arrested Jesus-- for he was numbered among us and was allotted his share in this ministry. So one of the men who have accompanied us during all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us, beginning from the baptism of John until the day when he was taken up from us-- one of these must become a witness with us to his resurrection." So they proposed two, Joseph called Barsabbas, who was also known as Justus, and Matthias. Then they prayed and said, "Lord, you know everyone's heart. Show us which one of these two you have chosen to take the place in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas turned aside to go to his own place." And they cast lots for them, and the lot fell on Matthias; and he was added to the eleven apostles. Leader The Word of the Lord. People Thanks be to God. 4 All who are able please stand CANTICLE 8 S 208 THE SONG OF MOSES / CANTEMUS DOMINO 5 Please Sit THE SECOND LESSON 1 John 5.9-13 Sara McNelis, Reader Today’s reading includes the end of the discussion on the witness to the Son of God, a statement of the point of the epistle and its purpose and the first part of an appendix. The testimony of God was manifested in two ways: first, through God’s saving action in Jesus; second, through the result of that action – eternal life for the believer. Verse 12 encapsulates the call to decision, toward which the whole letter has been leading. Verse 13 summarizes the epistle in a way similar to Joh 20.31. The appendix speaks of prayer “according to his will” as John does of prayer “in his name”. Leader A Reading from first book of John. 6 If we receive human testimony, the testimony of God is greater; for this is the testimony of God that he has testified to his Son. Those who believe in the Son of God have the testimony in their hearts. Those who do not believe in God have made him a liar by not believing in the testimony that God has given concerning his Son. And this is the testimony: God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life. I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life. Leader The Word of the Lord. People Thanks be to God. All who are able please stand CANTICLE 18 A SONG TO THE LAMB / DIGNUS ES Please Sit THE THIRD READING John 17.6-19 James Pasquale Lay Worship Leader Chapter 17 is known as the “prayer of consecration” or “high priestly prayer” of Jesus. He offers himself to the Father and speaks as high priest in offering intercessions for others. Jesus’s ministry on earth is completed. He has revealed God to the disciples. For John, this prayer is the expression of Jesus’s union and communion with the Father, spoken aloud before the disciples so that they may share that union. It is revelation as well as intercession. Jesus prays for himself, for the disciples and for future believers. He prays that the disciples may be kept safe from the world by the power of the name God has given him. The disciples – and all Christians – are consecrated, set 7 apart, as Jesus was by his incarnation. This is not merely for self-purification but for mission into the world. The mission of the disciples, continuing the presence of Jesus, brings the world to judgment. Leader A Reading from the book of John. Jesus prayed for his disciples, “I have made your name known to those whom you gave me from the world. They were yours, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. Now they know that everything you have given me is from you; for the words that you gave to me I have given to them, and they have received them and know in truth that I came from you; and they have believed that you sent me. I am asking on their behalf; I am not asking on behalf of the world, but on behalf of those whom you gave me, because they are yours. All mine are yours, and yours are mine; and I have been glorified in them. And now I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one, as we are one. While I was with them, I protected them in your name that you have given me. I guarded them, and not one of them was lost except the one destined to be lost, so that the scripture might be fulfilled. But now I am coming to you, and I speak these things in the world so that they may have my joy made complete in themselves. I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world.
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